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Literary and Theatrical Circulations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, from the Belgian Colonial Empire to the Africa of the Great Lakes Artl@s Bulletin Volume 5 Article 5 Issue 2 South - South Axes of Global Art 2016 Literary and Theatrical Circulations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, from the Belgian Colonial Empire to the Africa of the Great Lakes. Maëline Le Lay CNRS, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory Commons, Other French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, and the Theatre History Commons Recommended Citation Le Lay, Maëline. "Literary and Theatrical Circulations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, from the Belgian Colonial Empire to the Africa of the Great Lakes.." Artl@s Bulletin 5, no. 2 (2016): Article 5. This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact [email protected] for additional information. This is an Open Access journal. This means that it uses a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles. This journal is covered under the CC BY-NC-ND license. South-South Literary and Theatrical Circulations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, from the Belgian Colonial Empire to the Africa of the Great Lakes. Maëline Le Lay* CNRS / LAM Bordeaux Abstract This article on literary and theatrical circulations in Africa’s Great Lakes region begins by retracing the history of these practices, taking several examples from the colonial period. It then analyzes contemporary modalities of the circulation of texts (via procedures such as reprising narrative patterns and adaptation), and cultural actors, in the different transnational arts networks that are more or less closely tied to the humanitarian sector, or to international cooperation. Finally, it proposes a critical questioning of the concept of artistic circulation. Résumé Cet article portant sur les circulations littéraires et spectaculaires dans l’Afrique des Grands Lacs commence par retracer l’histoire de ces pratiques à travers quelques exemples issus de la période coloniale. Il s’attache ensuite à analyser les modalités contemporaines de circulations des textes (via des procédés tels que la reprise de motifs narratifs et l’adaptation) et de circulation des acteurs culturels dans les différents réseaux transfrontaliers de création artistique plus ou moins liés au secteur humanitaire ou à la coopération internationale. Il s’achève en proposant un questionnement critique sur le concept de circulation artistique. * Maëline Le Lay is a research fellow at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) in Bordeaux (Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM, UMR 5115). Her research deals with theatre, performing arts and literature in DRC and the African Great Lakes Region. She published « La Parole construit le pays ». Théâtre, langues et didactisme au Katanga (RDC), (2014). 43 ARTL@S BULLETIN, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (Fall 2016) Le Lay – Literary and Theatrical Circulations Preamble in the worst) that characterize relations between the communities living in this region. “Readers are travellers; they circulate on Despite deficient state structures (and at times, the lands of others, nomads poaching due to), authors thus organize themselves within in fields they did not write.”1 different networks to circulate their writing: - Michel de Certeau poetry recitals, literary cafés, radio drama, or While Michel de Certeau’s words refer to writing – theatre performances. All these initiatives paint literature, and the reading that is its corollary in the broad-strokes of a rich and varied textual terms of reception – they can definitely also be landscape. They attest to the dynamism of this applied to other artistic genres, and notably the landscape and translate the force of the identity speech arts (theatre, song), which, to variable issues that animate it, and the emancipating degrees, imply the act of reading. potentiality it aims to convey. This article proposes to study the protean Indeed, whatever the networks through which dimension of literary and theatrical circulations these texts reach an audience, they all appear to between three countries in Africa’s Great Lake pursue the same quest: to heal wounds and region: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda rebuild ties. Hence, the circulation of texts, like and Burundi, today united in the Economic that of people, highlights the common themes Community of the Great Lakes Countries and addressed: those of war and peace, and the which formerly, until 1960, were part of the dynamics of conflict in general. Belgian colonial empire.2 After a first historical section presenting artistic circulations in the region–circulations of individuals in general, and of artists and their Introduction works, in particular–this study will focus on contemporary modalities of the circulation of The African Great Lakes is a region long beset by dramatic texts (adopting a format, reprising and acute tensions and scarred by murderous violence; adaptation). Finally, it will end with an analysis of these crystallize often-conflictual memories cultural actors' strategies of circulation in the around the lakes and hills of the Democratic region, mainly in the humanitarian sector.3 Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. Travelling the region, one discovers the astonishing porosity of the official borders, which allows for intense exchanges (both in the sense of I. A Brief History of Artistic “plentiful” and “emotionally-charged”) between the inhabitants of these three countries. In the Circulations in the Great Lakes artistic milieu, this circulation of individuals-- Region: Some Examples which frequently takes the form of flight and exodus, due to frequent political upheavals in the From time to time scrutinizing the worrying region--starkly contrasts with the density of the horizon with a lost look, always avoiding meeting divides (distancing and side-lining in the best-case anyone, I continue my hallucinatory flight through scenarios; processes of exclusion and elimination the vast cassava fields, past mounts and valleys, heading south, washing up, crushed with fatigue, thirsty, out of breath, no doubt in Mayaga, in the 1 “Les lecteurs sont des voyageurs ; ils circulent sur les terres d’autrui, nomades heart of the steppe, on the abrupt crest of I don’t braconnant à travers les champs qu’ils n’ont pas écrits.” Michel De Certeau, "Lire : un braconnage," L’invention du quotidien, 1/Arts de faire (Paris: Union générale d’éditions, coll. 10/18, 1980), 292. 3 This paper was written following fieldwork in DR Congo (Lubumbashi, Kolwezi, 2 I would like to thank my colleagues Alice Corbet, Didier Nativel and Daouda Gary- Fungurume, Kinshasa, Goma, Bukavu) and Burundi (Bujumbura), carried out Tounkara for their informed reading of this article, and for their questions and between January and April 2016. It was supported by the CNRS (InSHS - Institut pertinent remarks. national des Sciences humaines et sociales), IFRA Nairobi and IFAS Johannesburg. ARTL@S BULLETIN, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (Fall 2016) 44 South-South Le Lay – Literary and Theatrical Circulations know which hill – Kibirizi, perhaps, or Matara? – posterity, however, until it was rediscovered by where the brambles, alongside wild bushes, grown Jean-Paul Kwizera, editor of the 2009 edition. A beneath the careful hand of God in a thankless land few years later, in 1954, Saverio Nayigiziki of rock and stone. […] the day after tomorrow […] I published a play, L’Optimiste, first published in shall cross the river and, after the Kanyinya Mission Astrida (today Butare in Rwanda), then in the and the Kirundo post in Muhinga territory, reach the Anglo-Belgian border and at last Tanganyika journal of the Élisabethville association of writers, 7 Territory, in complete safety. 4 Jeune Afrique, Revue de l’UAAL. Posted by the IRSAC (Institute of Scientific Research on Central This passage is taken from a dense account, Africa) in Astrida to its Élisabethville station recently re-published under the title Mes transes à (today Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of trente ans (Escapade ruandaise). In addition to its Congo),8 he indeed emigrated to Congo and settled indisputable literary interest, it testifies to the real in the Katanga region’s capital. He was, moreover, circulation of people, artists and texts in the one of the first Africans to hold a function on the Belgian colonial space, despite very rigidly applied editorial board of the colonial journal as of 1959. regulations. Saverio Nayigiziki, who exerted many professions, notably in the public administration,5 was the author of this remarkable account, part of 1. The Mobility and Circulations of Individuals which was published in 1950 under the title: in the Empire Escapade ruandaise Journal d’un clerc en sa trentième année.6 It is an autofiction, as it would be In Belgium’s African colonies, circulations of described today, narrating the flight of Justin in the people between the three countries were common, colonial territories and beyond, from Rwanda to but carefully controlled. These were primarily Burundi to Uganda and Tanzania. A clerk in a labour migrations, essentially from Rwanda and national company, Justin fears he will be accused Burundi to Congo; the latter was officially the only by his superiors of theft when a deficit comes to colony, Ruanda-Urundi having the status of light in the accounts. Inspired by the author’s protectorates, attached to the colony.9 The incessant travels in a sub-region not yet known as Katanga thus drew a large Rwandan and “The Great Lakes,” this narrative is thus a kind of Burundian workforce to the U.M.H.K. (Upper travel tale steeped in metaphysical and spiritual Katanga Mining Union) in Elisabethville and the musings. Although very dense and hard to classify, neighboring mining towns of the Katanga copper it was awarded the literature prize at the 1949 arc.
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